A Moment of Love

By: Reshea Elle Lawliet

Bakura’s POV

I have never regretted my hatred for the Pharaoh and his kingdom, I never once thought of leaving it all behind and forget the past, I always wanted more, my revenge, my thirst for vengeance quenched from my being, but, I never thought, that there would be a day where I could try to forgive and forget all about it. Even just for a split second.

It was that scorching hot weather; I was weak, defenseless from the dangers lurking around me. They had left in that dessert wasteland, to rot, die and disappear from their grueling world.

I tried to stand, but my efforts were futile, every time I try to stand, my knees go weak and everything seems to whirl around me, the blood loss was one, but the whole thing made it worse.

‘Is this it for me? The great thief king, about to die from thirst and hunger, a pathetic death suited for an outsider, a murderer…’

As I closed my eyes, the light burning them into the pits of hell, a shadow creeps over me, holding me by the hand, feeling my heartbeat by the wrist, I try to open them and from what I saw before I collapsed, were silver.

It felt so good, it was soft and cozy, the light breeze entrancing me, I slowly open my eyes, It was bright, luminous as it comes into clear view, and then I saw her, her long brown hair flowing, she had an abnormally white skin, her eyes closed, as her slow breathing caught me by trance.

I try to tear away my eyes from her, but my heart won’t respond. I saw her stirring; she wakes up, looking at me with those stunning silver eyes.

“Shit!” I suddenly fall out of the bed I was lying on. I saw the shocked expression on her face…was it worries?

“Oh dear!” her voice sounded pleasant to the ears. She suddenly winds up standing on her feet and running towards me. Why would she?

She caught me before I met the ground. I was so surprised, that was the first time someone tried to save me.

She assembled me to sit on the bed, she looked angered. Wondered why that was.

“You shouldn’t just stare off into space like that and then fall off; it’s not good for your wounds.” She said to me calmly.

“Well sorry for that” I answered sarcastically. She seemed to back away a bit, but her smile said another.

After two whole days, my wounds have completely healed, the girl, which I never asked the name of, had gone to the market place for food. She was very nice, calm, and sensitive of what I feel; I know that she knows who I am, but she hasn’t made any comments on that.

I was pretty ‘mean’ to her, the thief king can never show weakness, and I would be sarcastic on answering her questions. But that never seemed to mind her, she was always cheery. I’ve never felt something like this before, and somehow it bothers me.

And then, that faithful night happened, she had re-bandaged my wounds, singing a beautiful song I have never heard before…it seems to heal some of my small cuts.

“Beneath the veil of starry skies…as cold as winter’s darkest night…it’s there you sleep, silent and deep, you’re all alone…”

I listened to her, I never thought that it will be the last time that I will see her, but I cherished it, I would always remember.

“I watched you as you, so peacefully dreamed…you laughed like a child, happy and carefree…it’s all, familiar and yet, so far…that’s the future promise for you and me…”

I had never laughed before, as a child, I could never laugh, I had no one to laugh with, but this time, maybe someone, somehow… will be laughing with me. As for the future, I see nothing in mine, but yours, I do, I did.

“One day on a green and shining morn, one day we will finally make it through…cause in this skies, so dark with winter…we still have to believe that it’s true…”

A bright future you say, I can’t see it…I never will, but I hoped, I really hoped that somehow, we could make through, even it’s only you. You were like my best friend, yes, a best friend.

Suddenly, the door opened, her singing stopped abruptly, the horror I her eyes made me limp, but I have to be strong, they found me. I stood up, took out a dagger, about to attack the intruders, when she stopped me.

“Hurry! Get out of here, get as far away from here as possible!!” she yelled at me, her silver eyes intense on my crimson ones.

“I’ll be back…” I told her; I ran to a secret passage she told me that hid in her small house, it will lead into the dessert.

I ran as fast as I can, glancing backwards to her, the soldiers had surrounded her now, and it was my entire fault. I’m at the foot of freedom once again, I will be free from there, but somehow, a tug at the back of my head shattered my horrid thoughts.

“I can’t…” I mumbled to myself. I ran back, as fast as I can, the sun had set; it was very dark, the coldness almost numbing my feet.

I came back, I did, but I was too late. The soldier had struck her with his sword, right in the stomach, I nearly went berserk, the anger inside me came out, my trusted monster, Diabound obliterated them for me. I lost, I always loose, and I can never protect anyone that was close to me.

There she was, lying on the floor helplessly, her breathing slow, eyes closed, pain seething from her face. I ran to her aid, scooping her from the floor.

“Hey!” I called out. She responds by opening her silver eyes slightly. The side of her mouth drips off blood. She was wounded, fatally.

“Bakura…” she whispers, this is the very first time she spoke my name directly. I carry her on my shoulders, taking the path she had told me, we arrived outside in the blackened desert, the wind stricken us from the side, I tried to keep my balance, but it was too hard.

I fell, dropping her with me. Her breathing has lessened; loosing blood even more, my stained cloak and chest glistened by her blood. I pick her up, helping her walk with my hand by her waist, walking slightly over the sands.

“We still have…to believe that it’s true…”

“Stop it! I scolded” She was trying to sing again, her body won’t make it if she continues this idiocy. She never listened instead…

“Here me…” she said. The desert storm was becoming harder by the second. She dragged me on the sand, avoiding the small hurricane. It stops, everything was suddenly calm, I stood up on my knees, about to take her in my arms again, but she stopped me.

“Fields of hope…”

I stare in shock, after those three words, she had laid there, dead. Her eyes was half open, I put my palm on her eyes and closes it. I carry her out on the blackened star lit skies above the desert.

I place her on the sand, her corpse buried by it. I knew what she wanted to tell me, let go of my hatred, leave it all behind, but after this? It was impossible. I can never, it had just grew more than it had before.

“Fields…of hope? There never was…” I say to her disappearing body, the sands completely taking her to the bottom.

“I shall destroy you Pharaoh; take everything away from you, just like what you did to her…” My eyes calmed a little, remembering the small fragments of memory.

It was only a few moments, a moment that will never cease in my heart, a song that will be remembered after I have been reincarnated, a still moment of love…

‘’Owari’’